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Unwrapping Ancient Egypt: The Shroud, the Secret and the Sacred

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In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth used to be a ritual that lay on the core of Egyptian society. Yet within the brand new world, attention has focused as an alternative on unwrapping all of the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place.

This book breaks new ground by having a look on the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and on the way their unwrapping has shaped the way in which we consider the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues in a similar fashion reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities within the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press.

From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.

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